Wednesday, December 2, 2009
I have never, in my 20 year history of computing, ever come across a bit of software as remarkably terrible as ArcGIS. Ever.
That is all.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
O! Brackish water, full of fury!
Warms my brain, on mornings cold.
Gives force to thought when mine eyes are dreary,
Lording o’er beverages, with taste so bold.
Contained by glass after falling down,
Made from earth, so finely ground.
With cream makes the color pleasant brown,
Without which my face becomed frown’d.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
I haven’t updated in a while. Originally, I was going to say that the
guest house internet rather sucks, but then I could blog like I did
from the plane- just blog into a text file, and then copy and paste it
like a good boy when I get to internet (in the office).
Honestly? I’m lazy. [...]
India is an interesting country. If I were from an earlier time, I think “queer” would be a great word for it. The woman who tends the garden outside my window makes about 70 Rs./day. I’ve so far averaged to be spending about 100-120 Rs./day, and I think I’m spending a lot [...]
Now I’m sitting here on an American Airlines 777, somewhere over Michigan. On my way to India. INDIA. I’m going to be there for a month. It’s my first time out of the country, and I’m just as terrified as I am excited. It’s not like I’m even going to [...]
Friday, February 13, 2009
Looking through my collection of papers, I noticed something today: nearly everything I do at work starts with “C”
Carbon-nitrogen Cycle modeling
Crop growth modeling
Climate generation
Coding
Climate modeling
… the only outlier is the letter B for Biofuels.
I’ve always liked the song Beds Are Burning by the Australian rock band Midnight Oil. The Oils have a unique sound that caught me early on, listening to Chicago’s WXRT radio that my dad has running whenever there’s a stereo with power.
Right, then. Let’s start with the original.
Now, in 2004, a europop group [...]
Saturday, February 7, 2009
…everything breaks down.
Last week involved a lot of things that involved a lot of brainpower on my part. I had to do a tricky interpolation of a dataset, get a multi-directory, F77/F90 source dependency generator working, re-factor a bunch of F77 I/O into some F90 that I can then wrench around to do as [...]
I’m feeling quite ill at the moment. Thinking straight is hard, I can’t sleep, and I’ve taken a sick day from work. As I’m lying here in my bed, with Nekolas Cattington III on my lap, I’ve decided it’d be a great time to blog!
Audience goes “Uh-oh”
I suppose this is about right for [...]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
I work professionally as a programmer at an atmospheric science department at a major university. One of the biggest things about atmospheric research is our reliance on computers for everything. While we’re nowhere near the limit of what we can do with observational data (and indeed in many areas, observational data is woefully [...]
